| 1877 - 832 páginas
...mean, why then to gat the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meaness to the world ; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are ia a strange uncertainty about it, whether... | |
| 1921 - 744 páginas
...mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world ; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it." That is, he went into the woods, not because he wished to avoid his fellow men as a misanthrope,... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 278 páginas
...mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world ; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty f nn -is of the... | |
| 1886 - 476 páginas
...terms, and if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness out of it ; ... .or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it. That the birds which came at his call, the fishes that swam into his hand, the fox that fled to... | |
| Margaret Sidney - 1888 - 120 páginas
...mean, why, then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion." Why did he choose Wai den for the scene of his voluntary isolation ? Hear... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1890 - 676 páginas
...mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion." "Able to give a true account of it in my next excursion" — that journey... | |
| Henry Stephens Salt - 1890 - 340 páginas
...mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world ; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion." Walden was, in fact, to Thoreau what Brook Farm was to others of the transcendentalists... | |
| 1903 - 696 páginas
...mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world ; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion." In order to put into effect to the utmost these ideals and purposes he did... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 páginas
...mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world : or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether... | |
| 1891 - 424 páginas
...mean, why then to get the whole and genuine uieanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next, exciirsion. For niost men, it appears to nie, are in a stränge uncertainty about it,... | |
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